Thanksgiving 2011

So it's the Monday night following Thanksgiving and I feel like I could go to bed now at 9:00 pm and that still wouldn't help me recover from the holiday festivities.  That and I have to participate in a conference call in 30 minutes.  Hardly seems fair that I'll be dialing in to talk HR while Matt's out for Monday Night Football with the guys at the local watering hole.  I want equality!  Actually, this body could not handle being hung over on a Tuesday so I'm going to consider this as a blessing in disguise.

So Thanksgiving was fun.  Lots of activities, lots of people, lots of food,  not so much sleep, too much booze.  The kids had a blast as usual while all of the jesters of the court took turns entertaining them.  I normally consider myself head jester but I think Uncle Tommy and/or Karis borrowed my title for the weekend, one I'm very willing to share.  Luke took his usual 875 turns on the trampoline and Adrienne her usual 600 turns on the swing - or the woo woo as she started referring to it as.  Was that correct English?  You know what I mean.  Oh and Luke learned how to use and iPhone - he's a pro at Angry Birds!  Aunt Emily had quite the grubby little iPhone decorated with Jello fingerprints by the end of the weekend.  And one more point of interest while we are talking about Emily, Adrienne called her by her name!  No, she didn't say Yummers, she said "Emmy!"

My mom graciously babysat while we went out on the town for a few hours one night.   We came home to find her asleep next to Adrienne.  Of course both kids woke up at some point while we were gone.  They apparently didn't hear Santa when he said he wanted them to sleep through the night.

Before I go and jump onto my conference call, I want give a shout out to Big Nick to wish him a happy 27th birthday!!

November Update

As usual, life’s been moving at a million miles per hour.  It seems as though every weekend has been taken up with, well, life.  We’ve been out of town a lot lately and when we are in town, it seems as though we get around quite a bit.  

I am pleased to say that this weekend is going to be the only “down” weekend we’ll have until 2012.  Not much planned and I like it that way.  Oh, Luke does have swim lessons but we don’t even count minor commitments like that!

I think we’re all still recovering from our trip to Michigan this past weekend.  We went to a wedding on the Meyer side of the family.  4 adults and 2 kids crammed into a rented mini-van for an 8 hour road trip 2x in one weekend. mixed in with partying, fun, lack of sleeping and general over-stimulation - sounds like the basis for a comedy, eh?  We did have fun and the little ones had a blast.  Luke was the MVP of the dance floor not only for his dance moves but also for his ability to pick up the not-so-single ladies!  He’s got a gift, that’s for sure.  Adrienne also enjoyed the dance floor a bit, but more for the colorful lights coming from the DJ stand than for the music.  She did a few shakes of the booty though.  

We’re all trying to catch up on sleep as I’ve been trying to communicate to Luke and Adrienne that anytime before 6:00 am is not an appropriate wake up time.  We’re getting there - slowly but let’s hope the time change the the long dark winter hours at least induce some sleepiness onto the wee ones.  

Here are some Halloween pictures since I didn’t manage to get a Halloween post out!

Friends for a few minutes

Mooooooooooooo

Super Why!

An old picture I found of Matt and I back in the day